Woman from Beecher missing since Sunday

Will County sheriff's police are asking residents in the Beecher and Crete area to help look for a far south suburban woman.

Cynthia Schmidt, 50, of the 100 block of East Kentucky Road in Beecher was last seen Sunday evening.

Schmidt is described as a white woman with a fair complexion, brown hair and hazel eyes. She is 5-foot-4 and weighs 112 pounds, police said.

Sheriff's police spokesman Pat Barry said today the department was alerting eastern Will County residents to Schmidt's disappearance via a reverse 911 call. Barry said ground searchers and a helicopter also were combing the area, which is primarily farmland.

Schmidt, who lives one mile north of Kankakee County and approximately three miles east of Hanover Township in Lake County, Ind., was reported missing Monday morning after she did not arrive at work. Deputies found her locked car, with her purse inside, parked at her home.